Better collaboration, higher productivity, more efficiency, time savings, and direct dollar savings. That?s what these executives and managers are saying about what Office 2010 Pro has meant to their businesses. It?s what we?ve all been waiting for.

Microsoft recently ?Released to Manufacturing? the latest version of its popular productivity suite, christened Office Professional 2010. Microsoft is using a multi pronged strategy to make Office the best place for business productivity; this includes the traditional desktop applications Access, Groove, PowerPoint, Word, SharePointDesigner, OneNote, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, Visio etc, but also the Web. Yep, the Internet is now a convenient way to experience popular Microsoft applications, of course, these are not as full featured as the local counterparts, instead it offers new, exciting ways to experience Office while maintaining the rich experience of content created in the applications anywhere, anytime, any device. In addition using Office Professional 2010 in the web browser, Microsoft is also pushing a richer mobile experience too, which is part of the strategy of having access to the power of Office anytime, anywhere and any device. If you have a powerful Internet connection (simply put, lots of bandwidth), Microsoft is also utilizing some of its investments from its virtualization portfolio. Users will be able to stream a full version of Microsoft Office 2010 to their desktop without installing the suite at all. Simply download a small setup executable, and your applications will be streamed to you. Earlier versions of Office can even co-exist with the new 2010 Professional release this way and the key benefit to is, you can still use the suite off line. Microsoft recently announced a partnership with Facebook.com to provide a service for Facebook members to collaborate on documents at http://www.docs.com. Basically you can share and work on documents with your Facebook friends. Some might ask, what is the point of this? Considering that Microsoft Office runs on at least 500 million PC?s worldwide and Facebook has at least 400 million or more subscribers, the likely possibility of you being able to share and collaborate with friends is very high.